The question of who truly are God's chosen people has echoed through history. From the tents of Abraham to the temples of Jerusalem, from Roman prisons to modern pulpits, we all ask: Which is the true Church?

Ultimately the Bible makes clear who God's chosen people were, they were the Hebrews, the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were the people Jesus was born into, the New Testament makes it very clear, He came to the Jews first! All but 1 of disciples was Jewish. Christianity in reality is a sect of Judiasm, althrough much of it has lost touch with its Jewish roots. But are they still God's chosen people?

Paul in Romans wrote that he was heartbroken over his fellow Israelites. He writes in our New Testament reading today that, NOT all those ethnically Jewish, are spiritually Jewish, not all followed the commandments and love God. The covenant was never about race, but always about grace.

Being a "son of Abraham" doesn't make you God's chosen people, after all the Arabs are also all descended from Abraham, (although 20% of Israeli's are Arab, and of that 20%, 7% of Israeli Arabs are our brothers and sisters in Christ and Christianity is growing in Israel today.) Belonging is not inherited; maybe it never was.....The Jews are raised to know God, they are the 'people of the book' God's people are chosen for their faith, being raised knowing Him, gave them a head start. But thanks to Jesus, we who are not ethnically Jewish now have the assurance we also can be God's children, His Chosen. But we do not replace them, rather we are added to them.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.- John 1:12-13

If you look at Israel's military history since 1948, the large number of miracles that have occured, time and time again....There is NO question that indeed God still cares about his original children. The fact that Israel exists today, proves that God keeps his promises and we should take heart and be encouraged by that fact, as we are grafted into that family, through Christ.